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....seriously?

Also I'm really disappointed that nobody in this campaign is a Barbarian. I was hoping Thimble would be so Laura finally had an opportunity to say "I would like to rage."

Wik and Tyranny kind of has a built in mnemonic. His name is a candle pun and their surname is Halovar. But the rest... I'mma need a visual aid.

And it's over. Slow start but I'm intrigued. I think I need a diagram to keep track of all the PCs, NPCs, and their relationships.

....why?

Do the Baldur's Gate games count? Because I can take or leave the Realms as setting for tabletop, but it's the most prolific setting for D&D in other Media... ...even if the world of Nerath got a movie before the Realms did.

It was in Psionic Power. Int Mod psychic damage and -2 penalty to Defenses and Attacks, augment for more goodies.

Yeah no Ego Whip is indefensibly bad here. Being limited to Charisma checks and saves for one makes it extremely niche.

Psychic Scream got big buff in the new UA--at least for DMs. It no longer has to kill a target outright to make their head asplode, just reduce them to 0.

VTT integration is really important for me, so I definitely get that. There's a lot I like about the A5E Foundry module, but what it includes and doesn't include seems very random. Fairly old Gate Pass Gazette content isn't in it yet, but more recent Voidrunners content is. Not to mention a...

Is PDF not an option?

Yeah. If you're running an older adventure with a Lizardfolk you're supposed to replace it with a Scout, even. Not sure why I'd do that when I could just use the original Lizardfolk, which are in the SRD and thus freely available online and in the compendiums of VTTs, but you know, that's the...

Though Solasta sort of made 5E light rules more stringent by extending disadvantage to attacks against creatures in dim light.

I mean, that's literally what the Dodge Action does unless you're a Monk.

I get that. My point is that I think the existing system in 5E allows for that flexibility so that you don't try and make things like 'Assassin' or 'Illusionist' a full class as past editions have, to sometimes... mixed results.

Honestly I generally agree with 5E's take. Going back through older editions it always kind confuses me that certain thing were considered to warrant their own classes, like Samurai, Illusionist, Assassin, and Invoker. There are some that I don't think a subclass cuts it for (Warlord and Shaman...

No? That's been a common criticism of 5E from the start.

For me the biggest pitfall of subclass design is that you can't try and balance a weak feature with a strong feature at a later level, or vice versa because there's no guarantee what level the campaign will go to. I was just reading Tome of Heroes earlier and noticed the hilariously mismatched...

They want D&D be to be everything it's ever been. It's pretty clear to me, especially after recently reading the opening of the 2024 PHB, that Crawford and the team were really trying to preserve the essence of D&D across the years. That includes the casual dungeon delves with emergent stories...

And that boy's name? Albert Einstein.